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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part Two.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rousseau say increased in France?
(a) The power of the noblemen.
(b) The riches of the bourgeois.
(c) Riches, vice and oppression.
(d) Arts.

2. What would make the state decay according to Rousseau?
(a) Noblemen.
(b) Lack of trust.
(c) Money.
(d) Art.

3. What does Rousseau say happened to what fell apart in Chapter 1?
(a) It was cast aside.
(b) It was taken over by new philosophers.
(c) It was forgotten.
(d) It was resurrected.

4. What can magistrates easily usurp according to Rousseau?
(a) Money.
(b) Power.
(c) Properties.
(d) Lives.

5. What does inequality of wealth and condition produce?
(a) An economic drift.
(b) War.
(c) Prejudices.
(d) Bad Laws.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of democracy would Rousseau like?

2. What power does Rousseau want the citizens of the cities to be able to do?

3. What does Rousseau think arises out of the property phenomenon?

4. What does Rousseau think artistic progress produces?

5. What does Rousseau say at the end of Chapter 1 might contradict virtue?

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